Roland Martin
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8th Circuit ruling ENDANGERS Section 2 of Voting Rights Act and Black Power
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November 24, 2023
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9:30Now PlayingA new ruling in an Arkansas redistricting lawsuit could be the set up for the next U.S. Supreme Court fight that could further limit the reach of the Voting Rights Act's protections for people of color.
The legal dispute is focused on who is allowed to sue to try to enforce critical provisions under Section 2 of the 1965 landmark civil rights law.
For years, Private individuals and groups who did not represent the U.S. government have brought the majority of Section 2 cases to court, challenging the redrawing of voting maps and other election processes with claims that the voting power of people of color has been minimized.
In February 2022, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, U.S. District Judge Lee Rudofsky, ruled that only the head of the Justice Department can bring Section 2 lawsuits and dismissed an Arkansas redistricting case brought by advocacy groups representing Black voters in the state.
Today, in a 2-1 vote by a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Rudofsky's ruling was upheld.
Kareem Crayton, Kareem Crayton, the Senior Director of Voting and Representation at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School, and Damon Hewitt, President and Executive Director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law spoke with Roland Martin about this unbelievable ruling.
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